Immigrant Memoirs in the Service of Americanization: Between “the Melting Pot” and Cultural Pluralism
This article analyzes four immigrant memoirs – Mary Antin’s The Promised Land (1912); Jacob Cash’s What America Means to Me (1925); Constantine Panunzio’s The Soul of an Immigrant (1922), and M. E. Ravage’s An American in the Making (1917) – in the light of their contribution to the nationwide debat...
Main Author: | Anita Jarczok |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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European Association for American Studies
2021-07-01
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Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/ejas/17128 |
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